Biography
After completing many years of demanding music studies
(first at Conservatorio di S. Cecilia in Rome and then in the
Konzert-Klasse at the Musik Akademie in Basel with Oscar Ghiglia),
Marco Cappelli has lead an extraordinary artistic path, becoming
familiar both with rigorous written music as well with free
improvisation languages.The diversity of Marco’s performances
is due to a fascinating array of collaborations (Anthony Coleman,
Michel Godard, Butch Morris, Franco Piersanti, Jim Pugliese, Enrico
Rava, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima, Markus Stockhausen,
Cristina Zavalloni and more) and regularly as guest in important
classical and contemporary music series (Teatro Massimo di Palermo,
Associazione A. Scarlatti di Napoli, Ravenna Festival, Festival
Traiettorie di Parma, Cinque i nel ’900 al Teatro Lirico di
Cagliari, Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian Academy at Columbia
University New York, Salzburg Festival, Ruhr Triennale...) as well in
jazz and avantgarde music festivals (Saalfelden Jazz Festival -
Austria, Pomigliano Jazz - Italy, Grim in Marseille - , Barnsdall
Theatre in Los Angeles, Tonic in New York, OutPut Festival in
Amsterdam...) both as a soloist and in ensemble settings.Among
the founders of the acclaimed Italian contemporary music group
"Ensemble Dissonanzen" , Marco Cappelli currently lives in New York,
where he is involved with the contemporary and avantgarde music scene.He
is Guitar Professor at Conservatory “Vincenzo Bellini” in Palermo and
Music Associate at Columbia University in New York. More over he has
been Sharon Isbin’s assistant at the Aspen Music Festival and School
’06 (Colorado), and guest professor at Julliard School in New York
(2004), Cal Poly Pomona (Los Angeles: 2003,2005,2006), University of
Guadalajara (Mexico: 2004, 2007).Marco has recorded three solo
guitar cds : "Fantasia per Ensemble" and "Yun Mu"for the for the
Italian label TDS, and EGP (Extreme Guitar Project: Music from
Downtown New York) for the prestigiuos American label Mode Records.
Mode Records also published two cds by Ensemble Dissonanzen, where
Cappelli is involved in G. Petrassi’s and H.W. Henze’schamber Music.In
2006-2007 Marco Cappelli also published "Los Angeles Tapes" (with
Andrea Centazzo and Kato Hideki) for Ictus Records, and signed his
debut on John Zorn’s Tzadik, taking part in duo with Jim Pugliese on
the CD "Pushy Blueness" by Anthony Coleman. In 2008 the Italian jazz label Itinera released the first cd of Marco’s band IDR - Italian Doc Remix.
(first at Conservatorio di S. Cecilia in Rome and then in the
Konzert-Klasse at the Musik Akademie in Basel with Oscar Ghiglia),
Marco Cappelli has lead an extraordinary artistic path, becoming
familiar both with rigorous written music as well with free
improvisation languages.The diversity of Marco’s performances
is due to a fascinating array of collaborations (Anthony Coleman,
Michel Godard, Butch Morris, Franco Piersanti, Jim Pugliese, Enrico
Rava, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Giovanni Sollima, Markus Stockhausen,
Cristina Zavalloni and more) and regularly as guest in important
classical and contemporary music series (Teatro Massimo di Palermo,
Associazione A. Scarlatti di Napoli, Ravenna Festival, Festival
Traiettorie di Parma, Cinque i nel ’900 al Teatro Lirico di
Cagliari, Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian Academy at Columbia
University New York, Salzburg Festival, Ruhr Triennale...) as well in
jazz and avantgarde music festivals (Saalfelden Jazz Festival -
Austria, Pomigliano Jazz - Italy, Grim in Marseille - , Barnsdall
Theatre in Los Angeles, Tonic in New York, OutPut Festival in
Amsterdam...) both as a soloist and in ensemble settings.Among
the founders of the acclaimed Italian contemporary music group
"Ensemble Dissonanzen" , Marco Cappelli currently lives in New York,
where he is involved with the contemporary and avantgarde music scene.He
is Guitar Professor at Conservatory “Vincenzo Bellini” in Palermo and
Music Associate at Columbia University in New York. More over he has
been Sharon Isbin’s assistant at the Aspen Music Festival and School
’06 (Colorado), and guest professor at Julliard School in New York
(2004), Cal Poly Pomona (Los Angeles: 2003,2005,2006), University of
Guadalajara (Mexico: 2004, 2007).Marco has recorded three solo
guitar cds : "Fantasia per Ensemble" and "Yun Mu"for the for the
Italian label TDS, and EGP (Extreme Guitar Project: Music from
Downtown New York) for the prestigiuos American label Mode Records.
Mode Records also published two cds by Ensemble Dissonanzen, where
Cappelli is involved in G. Petrassi’s and H.W. Henze’schamber Music.In
2006-2007 Marco Cappelli also published "Los Angeles Tapes" (with
Andrea Centazzo and Kato Hideki) for Ictus Records, and signed his
debut on John Zorn’s Tzadik, taking part in duo with Jim Pugliese on
the CD "Pushy Blueness" by Anthony Coleman. In 2008 the Italian jazz label Itinera released the first cd of Marco’s band IDR - Italian Doc Remix.